About This Guide
Our Field Guide is a supplement to what we do everyday–helping teams and individuals striving to make the world better–by offering tools to work across lines of difference, collaborate better and embrace creativity and equity. The larger impact of these tools is to move our society toward freedom and justice, but they are equally impactful on the individual level, making us better listeners, communicators and collaborators.
We’ve gathered insights from over 15 years of supporting team growth and systemic impact. We are grateful to have the opportunity to share back the tools and resources we have found most useful for successful project design.
The Field Guide is structured around phases of learning that support creativity, increasing one’s impact and building freedom: awareness, analysis, action and accountability.
This is not a linear progression. Rather, it is a cycle that teams consistently move through during growth and development. Your organization may be anywhere in this process. Our hope is that the Field Guide helps to strengthen you in your current phase and begin to imagine your next step.
Giving Thanks
We stand on the shoulders of all of our teachers. We are grateful to everyone that has made their tools and resources publicly available on this site. We have not created most of the tools and resources you will find here, but rather compiled, organized and connected them in a way that we hope offers new and more effective methods of designing change projects.
If there are tools you find useful, we encourage you to seek out the authors and engage their services or support their work in the world.
What We’re Talking About
We encourage you to check out some of the incredible teachers we have learned with, including but not limited to: Abundance Leadership Consulting, Bending the Arc Strategies, Building Movement Project, Center for Popular Democracy, Change Elemental, Colorlines, Equity in the Center, Dr. Barbara Love, Nicole Thomas Consulting, OpenSource Leadership Strategies, People’s Action, Race Forward, Race to Lead, Racial Equity Tools, Rockwood Leadership Institute, Social Transformation Project, The Management Center.
Field Guide tools can be used to prepare for a training, assessment or new workshop series. They can also be used to support the integration or implementation of learning after a report or learning activity. You will see tools or exercises you’ve already begun to implement, and we hope you’ll find additional supports to add to your pack for the journey ahead.
